Matt Gonzalez

This idea that once you get into politics... you are now signed up for lifelong duty being in elective office, makes a…

— Matt Gonzalez

When in some communities selling drugs is so lucrative that that's a pretty big enticement that we have to break down. Part…

— Matt Gonzalez

You don't have to be wealthy to run for mayor. I'm a Green Party candidate running for mayor and I'm being taken…

— Matt Gonzalez

At some point the rhetoric runs out, and we have to ask ourselves, 'Are we simply going to standby while somebody's rhetoric…

— Matt Gonzalez

If you engage people honestly, and you're willing to do the leg work, people will respond to that.

— Matt Gonzalez

I really am disappointed when I run into people who are angry I'm leaving office.

— Matt Gonzalez

I don't have to be in politics.

— Matt Gonzalez

As a young boy I won a few dollars in 1972 when Riva Ridge won the Kentucky Derby. I had overheard someone…

— Matt Gonzalez

I represented many of these kids as they become young adults in the criminal justice system when I was a public defender.…

— Matt Gonzalez

I think a lot of politicians, rightfully so, understand that their political futures are tied to how many times people see their…

— Matt Gonzalez

I had tried painting, mostly to give myself a greater appreciation of the craft and to inform how I looked at paintings.…

— Matt Gonzalez

There is a preliminary belief that Tuolumne River water could be captured by other reservoirs that are downstream from Hetch Hetchy, the…

— Matt Gonzalez

I don't think the schools are getting as much money as they should.

— Matt Gonzalez

Chard and kale are my favorite these days.

— Matt Gonzalez

When you have a democratically elected president of Iran you don't topple him for the Shah. You don't help topple Arbenz in…

— Matt Gonzalez

This notion that we're going to prop up foreign governments, that we're going to invade other countries for some kind of perceived…

— Matt Gonzalez

Running for office is important, and you don't really need more than to be right on the issues, and to be able…

— Matt Gonzalez

Certainly other things we can do, we gotta promote after-school employment, give kids an opportunity, raising the minimum wage was part of…

— Matt Gonzalez

It just seemed the timing of it was a little bit of pandering to the public at a time of an election.

— Matt Gonzalez

I've run for office, and I've stood on street corners, while people walked by me and didn't want to talk to me,…

— Matt Gonzalez

Some types of environmental restoration projects are well-known restored wetlands, for instance, or coal mine reclamation projects. Recently though, larger dam removal…

— Matt Gonzalez

A fascinating challenge facing today's environmental movement is how to best approach the reversal of past decisions that altered once-pristine environmental spaces…

— Matt Gonzalez

I think when judges are in the position of authority, they really get bent out of shape when someone tells them they…

— Matt Gonzalez

If you are doing well, your business will pay more in tax; if you're not doing well, you pay less.

— Matt Gonzalez

When I got into politics, it was a shock. People promise all sorts of things and then never deliver.

— Matt Gonzalez